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Metal By Numbers 10/29: Wait, you already knew Slipknot was #1?

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week.

Through collective industry clairvoyance, everyone already knew that Slipknot’s long-awaited new album would top the charts. Hell, people were talking about this last week. People were probably even talking about it months ago before the album was even out. But I guess that just goes to show the resilience of Slipknot’s star power since people were so confident that it would sell so well. And hey, any day a metal album tops the charts (with over 100,000 sold no less) is a good day in our books. In addition we have numbers for Primus’ Willy Wonka soundtrack (which is not a sentence I ever thought I’d write) and stuff from Sunn O))) and Alice Cooper. Dig In.

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A Pale Horse Named Death, the project featuring former Life Of Agony and Type O Negative members will release their new album When The World Becomes Undone on January 18th, 2019 via Long Branch Records/SPV. Today (14th), the group are streaming the new song “Vultures.” Check out the track below and pre-order the album here.

Blink-182’s Travis Barker’s Musink festival will return in March at the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa. The event is scheduled to run from March 8th-10th as Suicidal Tendencies and Limp Bizkit will be next year’s headliners. While we are still waiting for a third headliner to be announced, other acts include Hatebreed, […]

KoRn guitarist James “Munky” Shaffer joined Hyro the Hero onstage earlier this week (4th) during Hyro’s performance at the Viper Room in Los Angeles, CA. Shaffer’s surprise guest appearance was for the song “Devil In Disguise,” taken from Hyro’s latest effort Flagged Channel. Check out the fan-filmed clip below: [via Revolver]

It looks like Mastodon are working on their follow-up to 2017’s Emperor of Sand. Drummer/vocalist Brann Dailor shared an image via Instagram of himself and guitarist Bill Kelliher confirming new music is in the works. Check out the image below: View this post on Instagram […]

Machine Head’s Robb Flynn has revealed he will perform at Stars to the Rescue XXVIII, which is scheduled to be held on January 26, 2019 at Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, CA. Flynn will have a 30 minute performance as he announced his participation in the below video: Tickets are available at […]